The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
— Albert Einstein
Terrific Liberal Arts College quotations
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.
For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts.
At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career.
I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.